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Oh, it wasn’t meant to be sympathetic at all. I guess I didn’t clearly express myself. I was trying to point out that belief in pseudo-science comes about thro

• tcj_phx 8y ago
  > Why people lose trust is another discussion, but I don’t think it’s through an entirely rational process... I think "losing trust" is entirely a rational process. 20th century medical science suffered from single-causism [0] and frequently jumped to conclusions [1]. Institutions built treatment programs based around simplistic assumptions which were later shown to be false (cardiology/cholesterol, psychiatry/chemical-imbalance, cancer/genetics, etc), but never corrected course. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_to_conclusions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_to_conclusions I believe the so-called 'obesity Epidemic' is mostly a simple case of mass-poisoning with polyunsaturated oils. The experts interpreted preliminary science to decide that saturated fat was unhealthy, told us that polyunsaturated fats were safer, and the public's health has suffered ever since. Modern medicine is great when it works, or at least helps a little. The failures of modern medicine deserve more discussion.